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Time for a shitpost. Let’s play a round of Only Connect!

What’s the connection?

Chicago Pizza
SpaceX Starship
King Cobra
Holy Roman Empire

in reply to Sarah Brown

They aren't what they are called. Chicago pizza isn't a pizza, SpaceX Starship doesn't go to the stars, a King Cobra isn't a cobra, and the Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not roman and not an empire.
in reply to Richard Gadsden

@po8crg I think that Chicago pizza is at least similar enough to unqualified pizza to bear the _qualified_ name. It's perfectly standard for an X Y to be _somewhat_ different from the prototypical Y, and I don't think that chicago pizza exceeds that level of difference, unless "pizza" is defined _particularly_ narrowly.

(disclaimer, it's been many years since I've eaten a Chicago pizza. It didn't make a massive impression on me, gastronomically-speaking.)

in reply to Sarah Brown

@po8crg I get that you disapprove of it, but it's not "not a pizza" in the way that a Welsh Rabbit (aka rarebit) is "not a rabbit".
in reply to Adam

@po8crg chicago pizza quite possibly qualifies as a quiche *as well as* a pizza. That's OK, categories can overlap.
in reply to Adam

@Adam @Richard Gadsden If your quiche and pizza overlap, you may want to invest in an extra oven shelf.
in reply to Adam

@pseudomonas
It ain't remotely a quiche. I've yet to encounter one that included eggs or had a pastry crust.
As a linguistic realist, I believe foods are what they are called if they are called that by enough people who eat those foods.
@goatsarah @po8crg
in reply to Sarah Brown

LIke I said, no egg, no pastry crust. That's a yeasted crust.
(Some might have egg if they're filled with ricotta, which sometimes gets a bit of egg to fluff it up.)
@po8crg @pseudomonas
in reply to FeralRobots

@FeralRobots @Richard Gadsden @Adam Have to say, the intricacies of baked gluten products escape me, since I have to file them all under “poison” these days.

Anyway, it was a very pleasant fruit tart.

in reply to Adam

@Adam @Richard Gadsden I don’t disapprove of it. I had one once and it was one of the better quiches I’ve eaten.
in reply to Sarah Brown

@po8crg @pseudomonas for me 'quiche' implies something that's mainly egg-based, so it doesn't fall into that category, though it is as much a pie as it is a pizza.
in reply to Nick Barlow

@Nick Barlow @Richard Gadsden @Adam Now now, as Adam says, we shouldn’t be too prescriptive. If the good people of Chicago want to eschew egg in their quiche, who are we to judge?

I should, however, note that Welsh Rarebit actually is pizza.

in reply to Sarah Brown

@po8crg @pseudomonas My problem with quiche is that I tend to like the filling better cold, but the pastry better hot.
in reply to Eleanor LNR Blair

@lnr
Maybe, but it does highlight one of the key problems with quiche. (My workaround is to warm it from chilled until the crust gets soft. Not ideal, but better than cold crust or hot filling.)
@goatsarah @po8crg @pseudomonas
in reply to Sarah Brown

@po8crg @pseudomonas
This is well supported by a consistent theory
cuberule.com/
in reply to Rebeca

@rebe_gc @po8crg though quiche there is a term of art, as well as being topologically isomorphic to toast.
in reply to Sarah Brown

Both are acceptable answers! The Holy Roman Empire is, at Richard noticed, a bonus triple.
in reply to Sarah Brown

Also, King Cobras aren't royal. I was wondering if Chicago pizza wasn't from Chicago, but it turns out that it is.
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dakkar
they're all mis-named?
not a pizza, not a starship, not a cobra…